Strong Eagle wrote:Lots of net research. Lots of hands on playing around. And I conclude that my next phone will be an IPhone.

The key reason is the proper implementation of a touch screen, built into the OS from the ground up. Multi-touch means that zoom and pan operations are great and that the keyboard is intelligent. On the 3GS the operations have no lag, and with fully integrated maps, compass, GPS, and reference lists the kinds of augmented reality available are great.

I seriously considered the Samsung HD. It's screen is great but the Symbian OS really ruins a great piece of hardware. Always a slight lag in drag operations. Clunky method of handling icons. Single touch only. THe experience just doesn't compare.

I predict that unless Symbian very quickly does something about the OS, you'll soon see high end Nokia, Siemens, and Samsumg products using an altogether different OS.

Let me tell all you boys and girls: If you haven't actually picked up an I Phone and tried it out, do yourself a favor if you are still trying to decide on a phone. The user interface is second to none, and beats Symbian and Windows hands down, no question.

Strong Eagle wrote:Let me tell all you boys and girls: If you haven't actually picked up an I Phone and tried it out, do yourself a favor if you are still trying to decide on a phone. The user interface is second to none, and beats Symbian and Windows hands down, no question.

Sync with Outlook, music, photos, etc works great.

totally disagree! every hp got pros and flaws. iPhone user interface wins but graphic lose to samsung touchWiz which uses 16M colors. Its camera is also not as strong compare to htc. price wise, u'are paying more for iphone among all smartphones. so i would conclude no hp is perfect.

I got the HTC Hero free from starhub for a 2 year contract, that did persuade me somewhat I also kinda agree - each to their own - no need to disagree with anyone on THEIR choice of handset - I'm happy with mine, SE is happy with his, I do not feel any need to defend my decision, nor to be detrimental about someone elses decision. We all have different expectations and needs, no-one uses it with the same priorities and requirements - as I said before, I'm sure it will take me at least a year to investigate all the capabilities and most of them I will probaly not use, but for me, my choice was near perfect - For me.

I needed a new camera, MP3 player and phone. And I love my i8910! Huge 16GB memory, Great 8 MP camera and the screen is to die for! I would have looked at the Iphone but I hate what apple does to music.. don’t want that for my huge music collection, and the iphone camera is still only 3 MP. Next time maybe.

Sirano100 wrote:I would have looked at the Iphone but I hate what apple does to music..

you can't drag drop, gotta use itunes and some proprietary format. then itunes works only in some countries, like the apple store.

and i'm sure DRM pops up somewhere along the way.

bastards.

:b

Thanks taxico; you put it so much more succinctly than I could have done , I manage my music with Creative MediaSource, thumbs up to them, have done since they put out the only 60GB MP3 portable player yet and I still use it, since there isn't, to my knowledge any other of that size yet. It’s Singaporean (woo hoo) and they are so helpful & approachable when one needs support.